Trade & investment

ICC works to champion evidence-based policies to shape the multilateral trade and investment agenda as a driver of growth, jobs and development. We are the leading business voice in the World Trade Organization and other international forums – including the G20.

The changing nature of world trade, however, poses challenges to global trade governance. The rise of global value chains and increased foreign direct investment flows, among others, have made global trade governance more complex. Recent months have also seen a growing backlash against global trade integration and rising protectionism in many economies.

Digital trade

The Internet is changing trade as we know it, enabling even small companies to compete globally.

Investment

ICC has a long history of working to promote balanced international investment frameworks – dating back to the publication of the ICC International Code of Fair Treatment for Foreign Investments in 1949.

World Trade Agenda

Transformative technologies and shifting political trends can make it difficult for the machinery of our multilateral trading system to keep up. The World Trade Agenda helps governments set key priority areas for inclusive trade.

Protectionism

Economic and political openness has brought about unparalleled growth and development over the last 60 years yet protectionism poses risks to progress made both on the national level and as we collectively face global issues.